Right - I kind of added that idea of positions being actual vectors as an after thought in the post but the more I think about it the more I think that it's probably the case. For example if someone logged in from Texas and then New York. You would get 2 dots one at about 2 o'clock position and one at the 8 o'clock position.

its not a globe. if you take the geo mask image, then cut it in half anywhere along the image to get two equal halves, and rotate [url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/15497886@N06/8472690003/in/photostream/]one half 180*[/url] it looks exactly the same as the other half, this mirrios the way the numbers are placed, even the QR code. so its more of a dome that gets duplicated. it also rotates, thanks to all the gifs that have been made we can see that, so timing of log ons is crutial. also on wednesday we noticed the new hint/instruction, and it appeared that the northern hemisphere lit up the centre, while we needed the southern hemisphere to light up the outside, timing of when they logged on was again important though to get different numbers. that was U resolution limited, today (thursday) was V resolution limited, and it may have meant east vs west. another idea is that there are better results if, two unique users are on to pair up from each of these u or v axes. not sure about that though, it may just require population, but it appears that resolution improves when users of greater distance from each other are on at the same time. now we need to determine which segments corrospond to what time slot, is it by 5 min intervals or by the hour we arent sure yet, but this will help us coordinate when to make mob floods to target specific numbers/areas that we need better resolution in. hope this info help make this easier tomorrow.

I didn't say it was a globe. I said you get two dots for every pair of people. One dot representing the vector from person A to person B and the other dot representing the exact opposite from person B to person A - which would cover the 180 degree note you had. And while it may look as though it's rotating, that only happened on the first day and maybe a little bit the second day - and not all the pieces rotated. I'm not saying the rotation isn't possible, just saying it isn't likely because the past couple of day's we've had constant activity in the corners but it never quite moved to the top of the circle - which is why we were stuck. Finally, i'm saying it requires exact coordination, possibly from different hemispheres. But The different hemispheres is just an extreme example to get the point across. I think if we're able to get a single person to sign on today from South America (preferably the western portion of the continent) during a time of great activity in eastern/central US they would mirror a big portion of the data at the top and bottom of the image. A similar effect would happen if we could get someone from very far north Canada during a time of great activity in the southern US. Regardless I am using Sunburned Goose's automation thread to keep my activity going all day.

what is likely happening with the top and bottom is we are missing certain log ins and in addition it looks more like they have intentionaly obscured the numbers there forcing us to brute force them as a way to make it a bit more difficult. those are two of the ideas we are running with in the #alphalupi irc? this is all theory anyway until, if ever, bungie explains it to us...